16 Nov
2011
16 Nov
'11
12:42 p.m.
On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 02:28:53PM +0300, Louigi Verona wrote:
I agree with the fact that your code took lots of
time, effort and knowledge
to write. I would however question the obligation of other people to pay you
unless before making your work available to them you have made a contract
with them, in which case this is just work for hire.
Go to whatever shop. Everything displayed there is 'available'
and was made before any particular customer asked for it. That
doesn't mean you are allowd to take it away for free, not even
if you could do that very easily.
If, I argue, you have made your work public, then
nobody made a contract
with
you. Simply speaking, nobody asked you to do the work you did. But once it
is
available publicly, I do not see on what grounds you can demand payment.
It is available publicly *under some conditions* which are expressed
by the GPL in this case.
Ciao,
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